While I loved Enderal and praise it for almost everything, I have to correct this video on something. The world of Enderal is not open like Skyrim`s. Theres not many open fields and you cant really climb the mountains, so if you wanna go from one point to the other you are forced to follow the main roads. For me that lack of freedom that I was so used to in Skyrim was the biggest flaw in Enderal, but the game more than made up for it with the amazing writing and storytelling.
Do not forget that most of Enderal is also heavily level locked. You can try going to Duneville at like Level 5, but you will NOT have a good time. A lot of the quests are a type of "accept, progress, wait until getting stronger, then continue" which breaks up the flow so much and makes ne game feel that much more locked up. Definitely not open.
@@Nuniixo which was a huge negative point a ton of people had for skyrim that everything is adjusted to your level and you cant really feel the power while leveling up
@@overdev1993 There are way better ways of handling levelling to be sure, however Enderal's way is also not ideal. It's a really big powerstop especially if someone wants to play a more nuanced and roleplay-ish build (in a roleplaying game, by the way) and doesnt want to min-max. Enderal's unleveled system just locks the majority of even early game content (like bounties) behind levels which just grinds progression to a halt while the player scrambles to try and level up before doing what they actually want to do (like the quests, or exploration)
Also not to mention most players enjoy a challenge, a difficulty, but not to the point the difficulty/challenge becomes tedium. Skyrim's, and by extension Enderal's (it's barely changed, just with the addition of talents) combat is tedious. Difficulty in Skyrim or a Skyrim-based game can only be dictated by something like damage resistance and health sponging. If Enderal still kept it's level-locked regions, but scaled the enemies at least in a say 5 level limit, it would at least allow the player to explore a bit more fairly and openly.
I've known about Enderal for years, but this video sold me on it. I've been playing for about 18 hours, and it feels like playing Skyrim for the first time. The world is unfamiliar and waiting to be explored. I've stayed up hours past my bedtime playing. Thanks for the video!
Plenty of great mods out there, but this one takes the cake, next level! Essentially one of my favorite RPG's, down to story, character writing, world, side-quests and atmosphere. Its not a mod, its a game, a good one!
I loved this mod. I didn’t finish it. Well I haven’t yet. Why? Well in the spirit of your refusal to leek spoilers I will omit names but I failed to complete a companion quest in time and thought I could live with the consequences. I couldn’t and by the time I realized it, it was too late. So I will wait till my memory of the plot becomes foggy and try again. That is how good this mod is.
Enderal was an amazing experience for me, I've played it a couple of times never even feeling the need to add any mods, there's simply such a wealth of details and thought provoking ideas in that game. It gives me joy to see something like this grow purely from the passion of creators, those type of projects are usually more niche, but also basically always something beautiful.
@@HevadeWe I love you for saying this, and that's exactly how I feel.. I wish that a lot of the major game developers what Enderal represents and roll with it.. because I like the way that the leveling system is set up, I like that you have to purchase points from books. A lot of people complain because they thought that the world map was too small or. Confined.. I feel like it's meant to be an eerie mysterious unpredictable experience. I haven't beat the game yet, I finished the Rhalata faction line.
@@JesseJamison-f6i Absolutely! Ultimately I fear that major developers always will be restrained by their bottom line, but it has been done before; the witcher 3, Larian studios, those are to me instances of developers that maintained their creative liberty while swimming the wider economic seas. One thing I love about Enderal that isn't immediately obvious, is that a lot of the questlines have links to each-other that only become clear when you piece things together yourself, and even then it maintains a sense of mystery, making the world feel cohesive, but also much larger than you could possibly grasp in its entirety. for example; there is a particularly tricky to notice detail in the Rhalata questline: one of the npc's introduced there (I won't betray which one) is actually strongly tied to one of your companions in the main story.. (Didn't notice that myself at first, check out "Paradigm of Low" videos if you want to see some stupidly deep analyses of Enderal)
I was looking for the "mod" on nexus, then I realised it's actually a full game on steam with it's own page. Completely free. Ridiculously convenient. I know what I'm playing this week.
I’m playing through Enderal right now taking my sweet time with it too. It’s nice to have that feeling of playing something great for the first time again while simultaneously being familiar and very different.
To be honest it was easier to install on Steam. But once installed you can still mod the mod with Vortex. In fact, since it has shared resources often mods you added to Skyrim's large statues will show up in Enderal's shrines. That said, it is a little weird to see distinctive Dwemer architecture and not have Dwemer mentioned in the game.
I especially loved the gritty look of the tunnels and simple junk of the city. Skyrim looks incredibly pristine but Enderal looks lived in or abandoned. There is detail there that really doesn't mean much to the game, but adds a LOT to the ambiance of where you go.
There were several moments in Enderal that felt the same as the first time finding Blackreach. And some decisions were difficult. Very difficult. But you know what never was difficult? Lighting a pipe and listening to the bards. Still tear up a bit to 'Winter Sky'.
The ambient music is probably what surprised me the most in this game. I honestly didn’t expect (when I started my first playthrough) that the soundtrack in the game would be at such a high level.
Enderal is a shineing star. its how games should be. It draws you in, it grows as you progress. I can't recommended it enough. Every fantasy gamer will love it.
I had never heard about this until today probably because Skyblivion has been so widely talked about that it has been overshadowing Enderal so thank you for popping up on my feed!
This analysis and recap is amazing. You spoke out of my heart with many points you made and you gave me the chills multiple times when you skillfully displayed certain scenes with the specific fitting enderal music, because it captured the emotions I had so well while visiting these sights and experience the story the first time. Enderal is definitely one of the best games I have ever played and I read this sentence a lot from other people who have experienced it. It's simply mindblowing how this project was even possible by a small team consisting of ES fans. I want to say something to your comparison of enderal to skyrim: I think one can't simply say which game is better, because, and I know this sounds crazy at first, I think they both are totally different kind of games. What I mean is, you can compare single aspects of the games, for example the main story and say definitely Enderal is better. Much much, immensiley better. Everyone would agree. But I think skyrim isn't so popular because of the story. It doesn't focus on this. And I think exactly THIS is the reason why you have this skyrim phenomenon you were talking about in the beginning of your video: it's replayable because you don't have to follow the steps of the main story again and again to enjoy the game. You can go wherever you want and discover "your own" little stories, even though they might be much more shallow compared to enderal. But you can experience something new every time you come back to skyrim, discover new pieces of the world, try out some new stuff and embrace the sandbox system enhanced by millions of mods to cover the shallowness of the quest narratives. Sure you also have these side quests and things to discover in enderal, but not in this sheer amount that skyrim has, that creates an illusion, until a certain playtime of maybe 1000 hours, that there is always something new to discover. And I think it comes to the taste what you prefer more: experience an amazing, moving, deep story on the one hand, or create your own story on the other. For me I have to say I felt like I was much more engaged, immersed and really emotionaly affected when I played enderal compared to skyrim. When the game was over I still thought about the game for a long time and watched way to many reactions from you tubers to certain key scenes that impressed me. Like reading a good book I was eager to know what will happen next, so in my first playthrough I neglected many of the side quests to only concentrate on the main narrative. When I played the game the second time I tried to do every little thing there is and read every book and note and environmental story and got more immersed in the world, so that I didn't even want to finish the main quest because it would mean this experience will be over. But sadly at some point you did nearly everything, though it takes some degenerate play time. Still, I would be much more likely to start skyrim a 12th time or so instead of enderal, because I wouldn't play the same story again where I already know what will happen. This comes from this uncertainty feeling that there is a lot in skyrim you still didn't know, find or tried out. The mod powered sandbox. Then I would stop playing after some time, reallizing I play like a brain dead, quest marker chasing zombie with the feeling I would have eaten too many Mcdonald burgers. Because the huge world is shallow, the characters uninteresting besides maybe one, 90% of the side quests uninspired and boring. And in the end the question: Whats the point in all of this? Until have a year later... ;D
It's been a while since I read such a detailed comment :) Yeah, I didn’t quite express my thoughts clearly at the end. I also summed it up by saying that Skyrim is mainly focused on world exploration, while Enderal is centered around the main story. That’s why the "Skyrim Syndrome" works specifically with Skyrim, since it’s, like you said, a sandbox game. Enderal, though not small, feels more "intimate" in comparison and its world structure is more linear. No argument there. "Still, I would be much more likely to start Skyrim a 12th time or so instead of Enderal, because I wouldn't play the same story again where I already know what will happen." What I probably should have said in conclusion is that I have this weird thing where I replay games even though I know the story from A to Z :) For example - Mass Effect. I have gone through that trilogy so many times, hard to count... So it will probably be the same with Enderal. My next playthrough will definitely be Enderal. And then we will see if Skyrim manages to steal the spotlight again. And thanks for such a detailed response! Most people wouldn’t bother writing so much. I’m glad our thoughts and opinions aligned.
It’s the modders who make Skyrim a never ending game… There is always new or updated things to do in Skyrim and most of the time they just keep making it better and better…!
You're absolutely right there's a unique charm in Skyrim that keeps pulling me back to it i played five times this past year and when i thought this is last time there's a video of new mods and then i install it again
I was recently recommended The Chronicles of Myrtana (a mod for Gothic). It’s on Steam too and has really high ratings. But most importantly, people say its story surpasses the original by far. Basically, it's like Enderal all over again. With the Gothic remake coming out soon, it's the perfect excuse to replay the first and second games, plus this mod. So, I’m passing on the recommendation.
In my opinion it’s the extensive modding that’s kept Skyrim alive for so long. Enderal, unfortunately, does not have anything close. I found a nice NPC makeover mod and one twitchy custom companion, but that was about it. The story is rock solid tho. Your comparison to New Vegas was spot on.
Honestly, after my first playthrough, I wanted to donate to SureAI (since Enderal is considered a mod and Bethesda's policy prohibits direct purchase), but the company no longer exists. And it's sad. Closer to New Year’s, I will try Nehrim (a mod for Oblivion, essentially a prequel to Enderal). It was recommended to me and I have been told it’s just as impressive. So, if you haven’t played it either, I’m sharing the recommendation.
I just haven't gotten used to the v leveling system yet. It will click one of these days and I'll completely fall in love with this game. I just know it.
Yeap, same here :) During my playthrough, I noticed a lot of similarities with Mass Effect. But as it was explained to me, the writer was actually inspired by a module for Neverwinter Nights 1 called The Prothet.
Skyrim world, armor, weapons, lore, skill trees, & mods, Souls combat, lore & storytelling, cyberpunk player choices, minecraft-esc building (creativity), RDR2 immersion, character building, and Todd Howard's genius. this would make the perfect game.
I've often said that Enderal is a mod that crushes the original game. The story is so much more engaging, the atmosphere is on par or better, and the companion characters (though there are only two) are fleshed out more completely, and they convey feelings and thoughts that one can sympathize with and relate to. Skyrim gets a solid 8 (out of 10), yet Enderal would be 9.5.
Well, yeah... But Requiem changes the technical aspects of the game and it's a mod in the truest sense of the word. Enderal, as I mentioned, is more like a standalone game. By the way, I don’t know if it's possible to install Requiem for Enderal, but when I was browsing Nexus Mods, I did at least see the Valhalla Combat mod. So, if you want, you can enhance and customize Enderal to your liking. But I was too lazy, so I played the vanilla version.
I’m now playing Lorerim which has Requiem has me both frustrated and in love with it. It’s tough. Can’t outright cheat and, Dragon Priest are scary AF because of how strong they are.
o man, i actually never got all that far into skyrim - not that it was bad or anything, but i just kinda dropped off and wasn't super motivated to continue but this looks real neat tho, you really sell it well haha - I'll have to give it a shot sometime!
Two things: 1) I understand the critiques of Skyrim and what it lacks in immersion compared to not just Morrowind, but also Oblivion. Though to call Skyrim a “failure” is a profoundly intellectually dwarfed thing to say and mere self projection. 2) Can mods outshine the original product? Well incase you haven’t been paying attention, it seems like BGS is COUNTING ON IT. And that’s a large part of the reason that they have been backsliding since Fallout ‘76. When Todd Howard said games will be designed for modding, what he meant was “we’re going to rely on modders”
Enderal is one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had, always happy to see people bringing more attention to it! It's truly brilliant, by far the best 'mod' for any game I've ever played.
I played Enderal back when you had to install it like a mod, before Forgotten Stories or the Steam release. Such an amazing experience. I've never played Nehrim though. Can't do subtitles.
I plan to try Nehrim closer to the New Year since it was recommended to me and I have been told it’s just as impressive. But I didn't know that there is no English dubbing.
As a kid, I literally started with Pong. We hooked up the game system to our CRT television. The target shooting game worked very well and was a lot of fun. Then as a youth, I played Asteroids, Centipede, Pac Man, and my favorite, Cosmic Avenger with quarters in the vestibule at the grocery store. With the first DOS computers, I played text based games, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Leisure Suit Larry. Somehow I missed the Ultima series. I just wasn't playing games anymore. But at work, a friend gave me a copy of Thief - The Dark Project. And my mind was blown. The graphics are very low poly. The enemy A.I. can be a little wonky. But the story, the environments and the gameplay are, to this day, top-tier. Between Thief I and Ii, I would get lost in those worlds for hours, and genuinely feel as though I had been transported to another realm. There are some amazing games. Rockstar's catalogue is great. The original Deus Ex was another iteration of the Thief concept. Ultima Underworld is excellent. But the creativity and imagination of those very early days has never quite been repeated. Like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. Two epic turns changed the course of gaming. The first is that, to make games available to a wider audience, i.e. more consumers, developers had to intentionally nerf the performance, scope and capabilities of their games so they could run on crappy gaming consoles. Originally, games were made for computers, for people who owned computers. But sales is not a metric of how good a game is, it's a metric of how many units you sell. If you expand the consumer base to include people who don't own a computer, and just want a box that will accept a disk and play a game, then you can sell more units. But the general philosophy between people who own a computer and understand how it works is entirely different from people who buy a box that does a single thing. They don't care how it works, just if it works. So with that, developers knew that console owners were not at all passionate about the process, about how things worked under the hood. There was no editing an .ini file, or creating mods. It was just, put the disk in the box and click Play. To appeal to that market, it made financial sense to appeal to the widest audience. That is also called "the lowest common denominator". And that had a tremendous affect on how developers made games. For a very clear example, compare Deus Ex to the 2nd Deus Ex. It's so bad that I forget the name. It's not worth remembering. The second thing that changed is that companies were launched and games were made, literally by gamers. The companies were inspired by people who wanted to play the games that they made. But most struggled financially. It was a brand new technology and a brand new market that didn't exist previously. Often there was not enough money for marketing and sales were unpredictable, even for amazing games. So publishers stepped in to fix the problem. They could put in the financial investment to market the games that gamers made. So that they could be successful. But Capitalism is a curious system. In the 50s and 60s - the era that everyone (well, every white person) thinks was so amazing, there is a reason for that. At that time, companies were not judged solely on profits. They were judged by what they contributed to a community. Did the company invest in things that benefited the community? Also, and this is key, companies had the philosophy that the people who worked for the company should be able to buy the products they made. From clothes to cars. Everyone should have a salary that allows them to share in the success of the company. That has changed. Now, the sole purpose of a company is to earn money for the people who own shares in the company. Not for the community. Not for the employees. Just for the investors. When Dwight Eisenhower was president, the top tax bracket was nearly 90%. That was extreme, but it demonstrates the complete reversal of priorities that has occurred since that "golden era" that everyone thinks was so amazing, compared to now, when a company's sole existence is only for the people who own stocks. Zero concern for community. Zero concern for employees. Just earn shareholders money. Maybe six or eight years ago, one of the airlines announced that it was increasing wages across the company. One of the big investors, someone like Andreessen maybe, said in an interview, "that was OUR billion dollars". So the people doing the work that actually earned the money through their labor, they had no right to those earnings. That "belonged" to investors. And that's what Capitalism did to gaming. It did the same thing that it does to everything else. But it is based on a model of absolute fantasy. Because the model, for investors, requires quarter by quarter, year by year, infinite growth. Forever. And there simply is no such thing as infinite growth. So the solution has been to pay less, offer less, while increasing prices. But eventually, the less that you pay, and the less people that you employ, the less customers that you have to buy the products that you sell. In the 50s and 60s, more consumers were created by paying people more money, so they could buy more of the stuff that you sell. And the more that you sell, the more people that you can employ. That worked very well. But even that isn't infinite. Because there is no such thing as infinite growth. It doesn't exist. So instead, to please investors over the short term and maximize profits immediately, companies focused on cutting staff and not giving raises. They literally went in the opposite direction. And now, we are approaching the tipping point. A point when the number of consumers begins to not be enough to even sustain the same profits, let alone make more. Then the snake begins eating its own tail. People aren't entertaining fascism out of nowhere, and not because of one person. They are deeply dissatisfied with a system that only has one goal - to exploit them. So is it surprising that fans can make a better game than the original developers and publisher? Baldur's Gate III was made mostly by a Double-A developer, with some Triple-A cash flow. It was developed by people who are passionate about games and gaming. And it was made for people who own a computer, not a console. It is one of the best games that has been made in the last twenty years. It's better than the extraordinary Red Dead II, that forces you on rails to make decisions that the game forces you to make. In spite of its incredible beauty. And the reason is that BGII was made the way that those first, early games were made. With the passion of people who wanted to play the game that they made. There are numerous streams of people playing who are people actually involved in making the game. Then, when the publisher decided to get greedy after such a success, the developers walked away. They would have eagerly made a sequel. But not when the publisher laid out new terms. Terms meant to disenfranchise employees. So seeing fans passionate about games making a better game than this diseased industry, based on the fantasy of an economic model that doesn't exist? Not the least bit surprising. Whether it's Fallout London, Tamriel Rebuilt, Skybilvion, Enderal - it's what I expect. The best games are made by people who imagine, and then make the game that they themselves want to play. Not by some Sociopath like Yves Gillmoit, Anroid Wilson or Bobby Kotick. These people don't give half a sh|t about games. They care only about satisfying the fantasy of infinite growth for their investors, while stealing as much money as possible before the inevitable failure of an unsustainable economic model. Do they really care if a game character is black or white? You must be joking. They only care about one color, and that's green. So, let the fans do their magic, and make good games. We can play them after the collapse of Capitalism, as long as we can have access to some source of electricity. If not, then we'll just be living the game, in real life....
Very well said. Calling Enderal a Skyrim mod really doesn't do it justice. It is a completely separate game with the only connection being the game engine and assets. It has its own completely unique, more concise, defined story. It is much less of a CYOA than Skyrim. It is my favorite game.
Loved Enderal and the fact that it could be installed so easily off the Skyrim engine. No wonder Skyrim has been voted the best game of all time. However, it is still being played because of mods that extend the gameplay and refresh the look. Bethesda hit upon what players wanted when they embraced modding and provided the tools to create them. The modding community did the rest. All hail Ulfric, Inigo, and Heather Casdin!
The Veiled Woman is the Agent of Fate from Nehrim. Which will tell people absolutely nothing ;) Right! Don't forget to mention, that Enderal is a sequel to Nehrim, an Oblivion mod. It has a world 1/3 *larger* than the original and it's full with quality content. It has more jank, but it's a worthy title nonetheless, made by the same people. Many characters are returning in Enderal. Oh, right- both games deal with the issue of determinism versus free will and free action.
@@bjorntrollgesicht1144 In my opinion it makes Nehrim and Enderal even more impressive and unique. You can literally play through the entire universe in a somewhat similar progression as Elder Scrolls technologically. It's an entire mod-game series
@@bjorntrollgesicht1144 I'm playing through it right now. It has a lot of great stuff and the world is really impressive, but keep your expectations in check. I haven't gotten that far into the story but the creators were still very young at the time so the story is supposed to be kinda nonsensical towards the later parts. The beginning is really fucking cool and atmospheric imo. The biggest annoyance so far has been that sometimes the game throws a lot and I mean A LOT of HP sponge enemies at the same time. It's not that often that this happens but it happens still. There was also an instance where I had to help myself with console commands because I was supposed to run away from enemies that were just too damn fast. It might be because I use OpenMW to play the mod. Then again, in Nehrim one whole quest was broken and I had to advance it through console commands too. I'd say that if you liked Enderal and Nehrim, You will like Arktwend too. Especially for it's world and so far cool quest design (I really loved the quest about rescuing the Dwarf King's son, inspite of the amount of HP sponges). Just keep in mind that SureAI has only been improving and maturing in terms of polish unlike Bethesda, which peaked with Morrowind imo. Arktwend is also a sequel to Myar Aranath, an another total conversion mod for Morrowind by SureAI. I can't wait to play that one after Arktwend.
@@smoothyodaproductions4373 Oblivion started the dumbing down and casualization. Skyrim just took it to the next level while actually improving Oblivion's god awful level scaling system which is like the most anti-RPG thing
@@Iridescence93 oblivion was a good sweet spot for me personally. I like morrowind but i despised the dice roll combat and oblivion had enough detailed rpg mechanics to keep me invested. I hate the level scaling though thats the only thing i hate about the game
@@smoothyodaproductions4373 it did have some strong points despite being more of an action RPG but the horribly ugly character models and bad voice acting and the level scaling make it really hard to return to
@@Iridescence93 the characters are just funny looking and charming, and the voice acting has never been a strong point for bethesda. At least it has some voice acting which makes the world feel more lived in
A great video thanks for me I like oblivion and Skyrim I couldn't get into Morrowind and thanks to content creators I saved money on not buying starfield, I will be downloading this game it looks good.
It's really quite embarrassing how much better than Skyrim this is. The writing, the voice acting (including the fact there's more than like 4 of them 😆) and the way it handles mature themes are just so far ahead it isn't even funny. I could go on but I don't want to write a novel here and the video covers it quite well. While Enderal probably wouldn't exist without Skyrim, it's just an incredibly stark contrast between what millions upon millions of dollars gets you, compared to a game that was made with the one thing money can't buy.
Seems like that :) I will definitely try Nehrim, but for now, I want to play The Chronicles of Myrtana (a mod for Gothic). I have been wanting to replay Gothic 1 and 2 for a while and now I have two reasons: this mod and the remake, which is coming out soon.
The only thing in-drawal did was create a very dark dark setting and added more roleplay but unless you're in the extremely depressing and extra extra violent concept it might not be your thing while a little bit of darkness definitely is in the Skyrim story lines and there are some very sad subplots even it allows a character to emerge into the setting. And yes Skyrim is very light and roleplay You start off with essentially a race and not much else there's hardly any backstory at all to your character It's only hinted at it and again as I've said before anybody who would join the empire after them almost taking your head is really strange that'd be like somebody putting a gun to your head and then saying afterwards why don't we become friends now
Only thing I didn't like about it was the way the story draws to a close. Once you have finished all the side quests there forcefully is nothing else to do. Sure you might run around killing things for more XP but it doesn't really help that much. You are better off sitting down somewhere and reading every book or listening to every song in every tavern than grinding mobs over and over. I will say though that playing the game without using fast travel is somewhat rewarding. Creatures have their normal spawn points, of course, but the detail of traveling between locations is so much greater, the distance feels longer, and you often find hidden things you missed the first 4 times through.
It's honestly reductive (no offense! good video!) to call this a mod, what this studio made with Nehrim and then Enderal are full AA video games, using the Creation Engine as a foundation. These are full, completely unique video games. It sort of shows what an alternate history might have looked like if Bethesda were less insular, and they had proactively licensed their engine to devs to go nuts with it. Thank you SureAI for making it. BTW, you can get a COMPLETELY MODERNIZED MODDED version of Enderal called Somnium through Wabbajack if you are familiar at all with modding. It's incredible - same game, overhauled gameplay. Muskets!
Skyrim is the one and only TES game I have never finished. I always seem to get near the same point in the game and then just... I dunno. Get bored, I guess. Then I quit playing, realize it's still installed months later, and uninstall it. Cause I also can't continue a game that I have walked away from for so long.
I in fact played it like 3 time last one was when the steam version realsed. The mod was good bit to dark and gloomy more on a horror side but the characters were quite nice i just wasnt the fact of the ending and not being able to expose a character when you knew he was the bad guy, anyone who played mass effect or had a brain cell could have predicted the ending yet we were still unable to do anything,
Me too, a little. But I love stories where the ending evokes both sadness and a sense of hope at the same time. This is best reflected in the ending where you escape to Starcity. On one hand, you realize that there is a real hell going on below, but on the other hand, there is hope that in the future you might be able to overcome this horror. It reminds me of the ending in Mass Effect when you refuse to use the Crucible.
Kind of similar to Skywind or skyblivion projects, a standalone game that is made as a mod just to use the full vanilla game engine.... I hope they make skarena or skyfall as well, I'd really hope to play those but I really cant get myself to play those graph/gameplay for long enough to enjoy those games
Now i want to play this game again, Enderal looks like just the skyrim mod/game i would like to try. i have this game installed on my old 2007 pc, i used to play skyrim for houers on an GT 8800 512mb and athlon 64 x2 6400+ with 2gb ram:P but i guess Enderal wont run on that old potato. should try this mod on my new pc.
How many hours does Enderal give? I'm a skyrim newbie who's cheated his way to the end when I was a kid and I'd love to give this a try! (Without any cheats ofc)
I played through the main quest and the major stuff like mage guild and such once nad uninstalled and haven't had any urge to reinstall since, until skywind releases that is.
i'm not familiar with how modding & coding works. are there any mods for skyrim that improve combat & enemy a.i., etc, that would be able to be implemented in Enderal? ones that don't affect story, or nav meshes, or locations? any allowance for visual improvement mods?
I wrote a short post explaining what's going on, there I also mentioned the 3 part GoT . But yordannikolov2179 already answered the questions about the release dates.
Good review, except for a couple of points in the narrative and some other things. It's understandable that didn't want to give spoilers to people who haven't played the game, but you shouldn't have mentioned obscure terms like “Red Madness” without explanation. This problem is not difficult to solve, it was only necessary to voice the beginning of the story with a few explanations or simply omit these details. But these are small things and it's not for me to teach you, honestly, no offense). I'm also not a fan of going into detail on the topic of role-playing systems, but here as I think should have said a little more about it. Because it is very strikingly different from the Bethesda series of games. Many people may even be scared off at first. Because, firstly, the whole system of leveling completely changes and throws what is in Skyrim in the trash and offers a more traditional way of gaining experience through quests and killing monsters and secondly, the very increase in characteristics is also unusual. At the expense of reading books of skills.Reading and, most importantly, buying them from merchants, which makes the economy in the game work again, where you constantly have to spend money on it, unlike Skyrim, where after 10 hours (it is clear that we are talking about the vanilla version) you are already a gold magnate. At first, this complicates the game, because you need to pump a lot, and your savings are limited. You can't just go into any dungeon and start collecting loot, because the game doesn't scale to fit the player, and a stronger enemy can hit you on the head. This forces us to approach the improvement of skills/characteristics in a more meaningful way. And I would also mention the dungeons in Enderal. Nothing similar to the level of filling and elaboration is not in Skyrim. After all, remembering the outposts, fortresses, falmers caves and Blackreach I already get bored and bad. And so, thanks for the review and for trying to popularize this game among the masses!!! When I heard Winter Sky, it was like I was hit on the head with a baton, but in a good way) I've never had such goosebumps, although I love music in games and didn't think that I could be surprised by anything. (I apologize for semantic errors in the text because English is not my first language)
"I apologize for semantic errors in the text because English is not my first language". You won't believe it, but it’s the same for me :) Regarding the combat system (specifically the leveling system) and the books; there are experience limitations, which means you can't exploit skill leveling like in Skyrim anymore; there's info about classes in the game (and some provide clearly more bonuses) - I initially wanted to mention all of this, and these paragraphs remained in the draft version of the script, but this section somehow didn’t fit into the overall narrative. I thought about it from different angles, but I couldn't manage to articulate this part of the script well. The next "gaming" video will likely be about Veilguard (Dragon Age) and there I will definitely talk specifically about the combat system because it currently looks... strange (considering previous parts and the RPG tag). So, well, it turned out the way it turned out. Let everyone figure out the leveling in Enderal on their own. :)
There are two games they made one for Oblivion too as well as Skyrim they're both good in their own way the first was a little janky but entertaining the second one got streamlined
can anyoine plz help me managing getting around the world in enderal? the traveling is the only downside for me. u just have to walk everywhere no fast travel. thats so time consuming. i quit playing after 2 hours because of that.
I don't like a game where you are basically just a passenger on a ride for 30 minutes going from one ultra controlled scene with no choices to another ultra controlled scene with no options. If I want to be a passive non participant in a story I'll just watch a movie.
"Should I reinstall Skyrim?"
Jokes on you, I keep it installed.
Why one skyrim install when you can have 4 skyrim installs for setups
While I loved Enderal and praise it for almost everything, I have to correct this video on something. The world of Enderal is not open like Skyrim`s. Theres not many open fields and you cant really climb the mountains, so if you wanna go from one point to the other you are forced to follow the main roads. For me that lack of freedom that I was so used to in Skyrim was the biggest flaw in Enderal, but the game more than made up for it with the amazing writing and storytelling.
Enderal is more like a Bioware game than a Bethesda game.
And I mean that in the best way possible.
Do not forget that most of Enderal is also heavily level locked. You can try going to Duneville at like Level 5, but you will NOT have a good time. A lot of the quests are a type of "accept, progress, wait until getting stronger, then continue" which breaks up the flow so much and makes ne game feel that much more locked up. Definitely not open.
@@Nuniixo which was a huge negative point a ton of people had for skyrim that everything is adjusted to your level and you cant really feel the power while leveling up
@@overdev1993 There are way better ways of handling levelling to be sure, however Enderal's way is also not ideal. It's a really big powerstop especially if someone wants to play a more nuanced and roleplay-ish build (in a roleplaying game, by the way) and doesnt want to min-max. Enderal's unleveled system just locks the majority of even early game content (like bounties) behind levels which just grinds progression to a halt while the player scrambles to try and level up before doing what they actually want to do (like the quests, or exploration)
Also not to mention most players enjoy a challenge, a difficulty, but not to the point the difficulty/challenge becomes tedium. Skyrim's, and by extension Enderal's (it's barely changed, just with the addition of talents) combat is tedious. Difficulty in Skyrim or a Skyrim-based game can only be dictated by something like damage resistance and health sponging. If Enderal still kept it's level-locked regions, but scaled the enemies at least in a say 5 level limit, it would at least allow the player to explore a bit more fairly and openly.
I've known about Enderal for years, but this video sold me on it. I've been playing for about 18 hours, and it feels like playing Skyrim for the first time. The world is unfamiliar and waiting to be explored. I've stayed up hours past my bedtime playing. Thanks for the video!
I have finished the game and the story telling is really good. You will enjoy the rest of the game for sure
Plenty of great mods out there, but this one takes the cake, next level! Essentially one of my favorite RPG's, down to story, character writing, world, side-quests and atmosphere. Its not a mod, its a game, a good one!
If u love skyrim this is hands down a must play. One of my favorite games of all time is Enderal. It is top tier for me
I loved this mod. I didn’t finish it. Well I haven’t yet. Why? Well in the spirit of your refusal to leek spoilers I will omit names but I failed to complete a companion quest in time and thought I could live with the consequences. I couldn’t and by the time I realized it, it was too late. So I will wait till my memory of the plot becomes foggy and try again. That is how good this mod is.
Enderal was an amazing experience for me, I've played it a couple of times never even feeling the need to add any mods, there's simply such a wealth of details and thought provoking ideas in that game. It gives me joy to see something like this grow purely from the passion of creators, those type of projects are usually more niche, but also basically always something beautiful.
@@HevadeWe I love you for saying this, and that's exactly how I feel.. I wish that a lot of the major game developers what Enderal represents and roll with it.. because I like the way that the leveling system is set up, I like that you have to purchase points from books. A lot of people complain because they thought that the world map was too small or. Confined.. I feel like it's meant to be an eerie mysterious unpredictable experience. I haven't beat the game yet, I finished the Rhalata faction line.
@@JesseJamison-f6i Absolutely! Ultimately I fear that major developers always will be restrained by their bottom line, but it has been done before; the witcher 3, Larian studios, those are to me instances of developers that maintained their creative liberty while swimming the wider economic seas. One thing I love about Enderal that isn't immediately obvious, is that a lot of the questlines have links to each-other that only become clear when you piece things together yourself, and even then it maintains a sense of mystery, making the world feel cohesive, but also much larger than you could possibly grasp in its entirety. for example; there is a particularly tricky to notice detail in the Rhalata questline: one of the npc's introduced there (I won't betray which one) is actually strongly tied to one of your companions in the main story.. (Didn't notice that myself at first, check out "Paradigm of Low" videos if you want to see some stupidly deep analyses of Enderal)
I was looking for the "mod" on nexus, then I realised it's actually a full game on steam with it's own page. Completely free. Ridiculously convenient. I know what I'm playing this week.
I’m playing through Enderal right now taking my sweet time with it too. It’s nice to have that feeling of playing something great for the first time again while simultaneously being familiar and very different.
It’s a separate release on Steam too
I know, I said it at the end. But there are those who prefer Nexus, so I mentioned both.
To be honest it was easier to install on Steam. But once installed you can still mod the mod with Vortex. In fact, since it has shared resources often mods you added to Skyrim's large statues will show up in Enderal's shrines.
That said, it is a little weird to see distinctive Dwemer architecture and not have Dwemer mentioned in the game.
I especially loved the gritty look of the tunnels and simple junk of the city. Skyrim looks incredibly pristine but Enderal looks lived in or abandoned. There is detail there that really doesn't mean much to the game, but adds a LOT to the ambiance of where you go.
There were several moments in Enderal that felt the same as the first time finding Blackreach.
And some decisions were difficult. Very difficult.
But you know what never was difficult?
Lighting a pipe and listening to the bards. Still tear up a bit to 'Winter Sky'.
22:44 stop!! You’re making me cry dude. The music is just so good.
Yeah man, it's so good
The ambient music is probably what surprised me the most in this game. I honestly didn’t expect (when I started my first playthrough) that the soundtrack in the game would be at such a high level.
Enderal is a shineing star. its how games should be. It draws you in, it grows as you progress.
I can't recommended it enough. Every fantasy gamer will love it.
I had never heard about this until today probably because Skyblivion has been so widely talked about that it has been overshadowing Enderal so thank you for popping up on my feed!
I heard of enderall before, but they way you describe it is fantastic. This video seems as much a work of art as a great game like skyrim or enderal.
Thank you :) Honestly, it is very flattering to read something like this.
ever since i played enderal, i have never looked back to skyrim
its better in every way
helps that enderal is just as mod able as skyrim too
This analysis and recap is amazing. You spoke out of my heart with many points you made and you gave me the chills multiple times when you skillfully displayed certain scenes with the specific fitting enderal music, because it captured the emotions I had so well while visiting these sights and experience the story the first time.
Enderal is definitely one of the best games I have ever played and I read this sentence a lot from other people who have experienced it. It's simply mindblowing how this project was even possible by a small team consisting of ES fans.
I want to say something to your comparison of enderal to skyrim: I think one can't simply say which game is better, because, and I know this sounds crazy at first, I think they both are totally different kind of games. What I mean is, you can compare single aspects of the games, for example the main story and say definitely Enderal is better. Much much, immensiley better. Everyone would agree. But I think skyrim isn't so popular because of the story. It doesn't focus on this. And I think exactly THIS is the reason why you have this skyrim phenomenon you were talking about in the beginning of your video: it's replayable because you don't have to follow the steps of the main story again and again to enjoy the game. You can go wherever you want and discover "your own" little stories, even though they might be much more shallow compared to enderal. But you can experience something new every time you come back to skyrim, discover new pieces of the world, try out some new stuff and embrace the sandbox system enhanced by millions of mods to cover the shallowness of the quest narratives.
Sure you also have these side quests and things to discover in enderal, but not in this sheer amount that skyrim has, that creates an illusion, until a certain playtime of maybe 1000 hours, that there is always something new to discover.
And I think it comes to the taste what you prefer more: experience an amazing, moving, deep story on the one hand, or create your own story on the other.
For me I have to say I felt like I was much more engaged, immersed and really emotionaly affected when I played enderal compared to skyrim. When the game was over I still thought about the game for a long time and watched way to many reactions from you tubers to certain key scenes that impressed me. Like reading a good book I was eager to know what will happen next, so in my first playthrough I neglected many of the side quests to only concentrate on the main narrative. When I played the game the second time I tried to do every little thing there is and read every book and note and environmental story and got more immersed in the world, so that I didn't even want to finish the main quest because it would mean this experience will be over. But sadly at some point you did nearly everything, though it takes some degenerate play time.
Still, I would be much more likely to start skyrim a 12th time or so instead of enderal, because I wouldn't play the same story again where I already know what will happen. This comes from this uncertainty feeling that there is a lot in skyrim you still didn't know, find or tried out. The mod powered sandbox. Then I would stop playing after some time, reallizing I play like a brain dead, quest marker chasing zombie with the feeling I would have eaten too many Mcdonald burgers. Because the huge world is shallow, the characters uninteresting besides maybe one, 90% of the side quests uninspired and boring. And in the end the question: Whats the point in all of this?
Until have a year later... ;D
It's been a while since I read such a detailed comment :)
Yeah, I didn’t quite express my thoughts clearly at the end. I also summed it up by saying that Skyrim is mainly focused on world exploration, while Enderal is centered around the main story. That’s why the "Skyrim Syndrome" works specifically with Skyrim, since it’s, like you said, a sandbox game. Enderal, though not small, feels more "intimate" in comparison and its world structure is more linear. No argument there.
"Still, I would be much more likely to start Skyrim a 12th time or so instead of Enderal, because I wouldn't play the same story again where I already know what will happen."
What I probably should have said in conclusion is that I have this weird thing where I replay games even though I know the story from A to Z :) For example - Mass Effect. I have gone through that trilogy so many times, hard to count... So it will probably be the same with Enderal. My next playthrough will definitely be Enderal. And then we will see if Skyrim manages to steal the spotlight again.
And thanks for such a detailed response! Most people wouldn’t bother writing so much. I’m glad our thoughts and opinions aligned.
I enjoyed watching this so much.
I hadn’t given Skyrim much thought in a long time but I’m going to check it out! Really well done. Thank you.
It’s the modders who make Skyrim a never ending game…
There is always new or updated things to do in Skyrim and
most of the time they just keep making it better and better…!
Next time you get the itch you should play Nolvus. It's like being lost in Skyrim with everything improved and updated. So good
Honestly enderal is my favorite game of all time. It is the only game that made me cry, multiple time at that
Bumping for the algorithm and Enderal
You're absolutely right there's a unique charm in Skyrim that keeps pulling me back to it i played five times this past year and when i thought this is last time there's a video of new mods and then i install it again
watched your video and thought it looked awesome, installing it now!
I need to play this again
I was recently recommended The Chronicles of Myrtana (a mod for Gothic). It’s on Steam too and has really high ratings. But most importantly, people say its story surpasses the original by far. Basically, it's like Enderal all over again.
With the Gothic remake coming out soon, it's the perfect excuse to replay the first and second games, plus this mod. So, I’m passing on the recommendation.
In my opinion it’s the extensive modding that’s kept Skyrim alive for so long. Enderal, unfortunately, does not have anything close. I found a nice NPC makeover mod and one twitchy custom companion, but that was about it. The story is rock solid tho. Your comparison to New Vegas was spot on.
I juat finished Enderal for the first time a few weeks ago. Absolutely incredible
Skyrim PSVR is a revelation in vanilla Skyrim. The scale of the game is insane from the VR perspective.
I'd have gladly paid full price for this game. It was a revelation.
Honestly, after my first playthrough, I wanted to donate to SureAI (since Enderal is considered a mod and Bethesda's policy prohibits direct purchase), but the company no longer exists. And it's sad.
Closer to New Year’s, I will try Nehrim (a mod for Oblivion, essentially a prequel to Enderal). It was recommended to me and I have been told it’s just as impressive. So, if you haven’t played it either, I’m sharing the recommendation.
I just haven't gotten used to the v leveling system yet. It will click one of these days and I'll completely fall in love with this game. I just know it.
Enderal fan, you got my sub.
Enderal is incredible, it gave me that special feeling that only a few games like DA:O or the original Mass Effect gave me.
Yeap, same here :)
During my playthrough, I noticed a lot of similarities with Mass Effect. But as it was explained to me, the writer was actually inspired by a module for Neverwinter Nights 1 called The Prothet.
Skyrim world, armor, weapons, lore, skill trees, & mods, Souls combat, lore & storytelling, cyberpunk player choices, minecraft-esc building (creativity), RDR2 immersion, character building, and Todd Howard's genius. this would make the perfect game.
I've often said that Enderal is a mod that crushes the original game. The story is so much more engaging, the atmosphere is on par or better, and the companion characters (though there are only two) are fleshed out more completely, and they convey feelings and thoughts that one can sympathize with and relate to. Skyrim gets a solid 8 (out of 10), yet Enderal would be 9.5.
I'm going to have to try this out, I often play quite heavily modded Skyrim, but haven't gotten around to Enderal yet. Love your content by the way!
@@lfcmike12 Thanks! Much appreciated. :)
I just learned about this mod today and now I need to play it.
Requiem is also really good if you enjoyed Morrowind and want a fresh challenge in base Skyrim.
Well, yeah... But Requiem changes the technical aspects of the game and it's a mod in the truest sense of the word. Enderal, as I mentioned, is more like a standalone game.
By the way, I don’t know if it's possible to install Requiem for Enderal, but when I was browsing Nexus Mods, I did at least see the Valhalla Combat mod. So, if you want, you can enhance and customize Enderal to your liking. But I was too lazy, so I played the vanilla version.
I’m now playing Lorerim which has Requiem has me both frustrated and in love with it. It’s tough. Can’t outright cheat and, Dragon Priest are scary AF because of how strong they are.
o man, i actually never got all that far into skyrim - not that it was bad or anything, but i just kinda dropped off and wasn't super motivated to continue
but this looks real neat tho, you really sell it well haha - I'll have to give it a shot sometime!
Two things: 1) I understand the critiques of Skyrim and what it lacks in immersion compared to not just Morrowind, but also Oblivion. Though to call Skyrim a “failure” is a profoundly intellectually dwarfed thing to say and mere self projection. 2) Can mods outshine the original product? Well incase you haven’t been paying attention, it seems like BGS is COUNTING ON IT. And that’s a large part of the reason that they have been backsliding since Fallout ‘76. When Todd Howard said games will be designed for modding, what he meant was “we’re going to rely on modders”
i used to play ultima XI, i kept the game untouchable for years until i had a PC to play it, when i finally did, it was pure magic!
What a video, man! Gj
I appreciate it a lot, thanks!
Enderal is one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had, always happy to see people bringing more attention to it! It's truly brilliant, by far the best 'mod' for any game I've ever played.
I like all three Morrowind, Oblivion, as well as Skyrim. I do miss the spear and the ability to create your own spells.
I played Enderal back when you had to install it like a mod, before Forgotten Stories or the Steam release. Such an amazing experience. I've never played Nehrim though. Can't do subtitles.
I plan to try Nehrim closer to the New Year since it was recommended to me and I have been told it’s just as impressive. But I didn't know that there is no English dubbing.
@@CineGameAV there isn't as far as I know, though there might be an AI mod or something to read the translation aloud.
there is also a mod with english AI voices if thats better
Please finish your GoT!!!!
As a kid, I literally started with Pong. We hooked up the game system to our CRT television. The target shooting game worked very well and was a lot of fun.
Then as a youth, I played Asteroids, Centipede, Pac Man, and my favorite, Cosmic Avenger with quarters in the vestibule at the grocery store.
With the first DOS computers, I played text based games, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Leisure Suit Larry.
Somehow I missed the Ultima series. I just wasn't playing games anymore. But at work, a friend gave me a copy of Thief - The Dark Project. And my mind was blown.
The graphics are very low poly. The enemy A.I. can be a little wonky. But the story, the environments and the gameplay are, to this day, top-tier.
Between Thief I and Ii, I would get lost in those worlds for hours, and genuinely feel as though I had been transported to another realm.
There are some amazing games. Rockstar's catalogue is great. The original Deus Ex was another iteration of the Thief concept.
Ultima Underworld is excellent. But the creativity and imagination of those very early days has never quite been repeated. Like trying to catch lightning in a bottle.
Two epic turns changed the course of gaming. The first is that, to make games available to a wider audience, i.e. more consumers, developers had to intentionally nerf the performance, scope and capabilities of their games so they could run on crappy gaming consoles.
Originally, games were made for computers, for people who owned computers. But sales is not a metric of how good a game is, it's a metric of how many units you sell.
If you expand the consumer base to include people who don't own a computer, and just want a box that will accept a disk and play a game, then you can sell more units.
But the general philosophy between people who own a computer and understand how it works is entirely different from people who buy a box that does a single thing. They don't care how it works, just if it works.
So with that, developers knew that console owners were not at all passionate about the process, about how things worked under the hood. There was no editing an .ini file, or creating mods.
It was just, put the disk in the box and click Play. To appeal to that market, it made financial sense to appeal to the widest audience. That is also called "the lowest common denominator".
And that had a tremendous affect on how developers made games. For a very clear example, compare Deus Ex to the 2nd Deus Ex. It's so bad that I forget the name. It's not worth remembering.
The second thing that changed is that companies were launched and games were made, literally by gamers. The companies were inspired by people who wanted to play the games that they made.
But most struggled financially. It was a brand new technology and a brand new market that didn't exist previously. Often there was not enough money for marketing and sales were unpredictable, even for amazing games.
So publishers stepped in to fix the problem. They could put in the financial investment to market the games that gamers made. So that they could be successful.
But Capitalism is a curious system. In the 50s and 60s - the era that everyone (well, every white person) thinks was so amazing, there is a reason for that.
At that time, companies were not judged solely on profits. They were judged by what they contributed to a community. Did the company invest in things that benefited the community?
Also, and this is key, companies had the philosophy that the people who worked for the company should be able to buy the products they made. From clothes to cars. Everyone should have a salary that allows them to share in the success of the company.
That has changed. Now, the sole purpose of a company is to earn money for the people who own shares in the company. Not for the community. Not for the employees. Just for the investors.
When Dwight Eisenhower was president, the top tax bracket was nearly 90%.
That was extreme, but it demonstrates the complete reversal of priorities that has occurred since that "golden era" that everyone thinks was so amazing, compared to now, when a company's sole existence is only for the people who own stocks.
Zero concern for community. Zero concern for employees. Just earn shareholders money. Maybe six or eight years ago, one of the airlines announced that it was increasing wages across the company.
One of the big investors, someone like Andreessen maybe, said in an interview, "that was OUR billion dollars". So the people doing the work that actually earned the money through their labor, they had no right to those earnings. That "belonged" to investors.
And that's what Capitalism did to gaming. It did the same thing that it does to everything else. But it is based on a model of absolute fantasy. Because the model, for investors, requires quarter by quarter, year by year, infinite growth. Forever.
And there simply is no such thing as infinite growth. So the solution has been to pay less, offer less, while increasing prices.
But eventually, the less that you pay, and the less people that you employ, the less customers that you have to buy the products that you sell.
In the 50s and 60s, more consumers were created by paying people more money, so they could buy more of the stuff that you sell. And the more that you sell, the more people that you can employ. That worked very well.
But even that isn't infinite. Because there is no such thing as infinite growth. It doesn't exist. So instead, to please investors over the short term and maximize profits immediately, companies focused on cutting staff and not giving raises.
They literally went in the opposite direction.
And now, we are approaching the tipping point. A point when the number of consumers begins to not be enough to even sustain the same profits, let alone make more.
Then the snake begins eating its own tail. People aren't entertaining fascism out of nowhere, and not because of one person. They are deeply dissatisfied with a system that only has one goal - to exploit them.
So is it surprising that fans can make a better game than the original developers and publisher?
Baldur's Gate III was made mostly by a Double-A developer, with some Triple-A cash flow. It was developed by people who are passionate about games and gaming. And it was made for people who own a computer, not a console.
It is one of the best games that has been made in the last twenty years. It's better than the extraordinary Red Dead II, that forces you on rails to make decisions that the game forces you to make. In spite of its incredible beauty.
And the reason is that BGII was made the way that those first, early games were made. With the passion of people who wanted to play the game that they made.
There are numerous streams of people playing who are people actually involved in making the game.
Then, when the publisher decided to get greedy after such a success, the developers walked away. They would have eagerly made a sequel. But not when the publisher laid out new terms. Terms meant to disenfranchise employees.
So seeing fans passionate about games making a better game than this diseased industry, based on the fantasy of an economic model that doesn't exist?
Not the least bit surprising. Whether it's Fallout London, Tamriel Rebuilt, Skybilvion, Enderal - it's what I expect.
The best games are made by people who imagine, and then make the game that they themselves want to play. Not by some Sociopath like Yves Gillmoit, Anroid Wilson or Bobby Kotick.
These people don't give half a sh|t about games. They care only about satisfying the fantasy of infinite growth for their investors, while stealing as much money as possible before the inevitable failure of an unsustainable economic model.
Do they really care if a game character is black or white? You must be joking. They only care about one color, and that's green.
So, let the fans do their magic, and make good games. We can play them after the collapse of Capitalism, as long as we can have access to some source of electricity.
If not, then we'll just be living the game, in real life....
Good Vid, keep up the good Work ❤
Though I may not touch it for months - even years - at-a-time, Skyrim has a permanent place on my HDD.
Very well said. Calling Enderal a Skyrim mod really doesn't do it justice. It is a completely separate game with the only connection being the game engine and assets. It has its own completely unique, more concise, defined story. It is much less of a CYOA than Skyrim. It is my favorite game.
If you like the mod, you will love the book "Dreams of the dying", I can REALLY recommend it!
Exactly. You said it well in this video
Loved Enderal and the fact that it could be installed so easily off the Skyrim engine. No wonder Skyrim has been voted the best game of all time. However, it is still being played because of mods that extend the gameplay and refresh the look. Bethesda hit upon what players wanted when they embraced modding and provided the tools to create them. The modding community did the rest. All hail Ulfric, Inigo, and Heather Casdin!
BTW, sounds like the author could stand to learn much more about Skyrim by trying some of the many quest and companion mods.
The Veiled Woman is the Agent of Fate from Nehrim. Which will tell people absolutely nothing ;)
Right! Don't forget to mention, that Enderal is a sequel to Nehrim, an Oblivion mod. It has a world 1/3 *larger* than the original and it's full with quality content. It has more jank, but it's a worthy title nonetheless, made by the same people. Many characters are returning in Enderal. Oh, right- both games deal with the issue of determinism versus free will and free action.
Isn't Nehrim also a sequel of it's own to a Morrowind mod? Arkthweld (I completely forgot the name, so I just tried to post this if you might know.)
@@Nuniixo Arktwend. Yes, though I haven't played it myself. It's still on SureAI's page.
@@bjorntrollgesicht1144 In my opinion it makes Nehrim and Enderal even more impressive and unique. You can literally play through the entire universe in a somewhat similar progression as Elder Scrolls technologically. It's an entire mod-game series
@@Nuniixo have you played it? Is it any good? I'm considering it, but never got to do the thing.
@@bjorntrollgesicht1144 I'm playing through it right now. It has a lot of great stuff and the world is really impressive, but keep your expectations in check. I haven't gotten that far into the story but the creators were still very young at the time so the story is supposed to be kinda nonsensical towards the later parts. The beginning is really fucking cool and atmospheric imo.
The biggest annoyance so far has been that sometimes the game throws a lot and I mean A LOT of HP sponge enemies at the same time. It's not that often that this happens but it happens still. There was also an instance where I had to help myself with console commands because I was supposed to run away from enemies that were just too damn fast. It might be because I use OpenMW to play the mod. Then again, in Nehrim one whole quest was broken and I had to advance it through console commands too.
I'd say that if you liked Enderal and Nehrim, You will like Arktwend too. Especially for it's world and so far cool quest design (I really loved the quest about rescuing the Dwarf King's son, inspite of the amount of HP sponges). Just keep in mind that SureAI has only been improving and maturing in terms of polish unlike Bethesda, which peaked with Morrowind imo.
Arktwend is also a sequel to Myar Aranath, an another total conversion mod for Morrowind by SureAI. I can't wait to play that one after Arktwend.
Great video!
Vanilla Skyrim isnt really an rpg, its an action game with rpg mechanics. Its simplification is the very reason for its success
yeah oblivion and especially morrowind are more hardcore rpgs. But skyrim still is an rpg as it fits the criteria
@@smoothyodaproductions4373 Oblivion started the dumbing down and casualization. Skyrim just took it to the next level while actually improving Oblivion's god awful level scaling system which is like the most anti-RPG thing
@@Iridescence93 oblivion was a good sweet spot for me personally. I like morrowind but i despised the dice roll combat and oblivion had enough detailed rpg mechanics to keep me invested. I hate the level scaling though thats the only thing i hate about the game
@@smoothyodaproductions4373 it did have some strong points despite being more of an action RPG but the horribly ugly character models and bad voice acting and the level scaling make it really hard to return to
@@Iridescence93 the characters are just funny looking and charming, and the voice acting has never been a strong point for bethesda. At least it has some voice acting which makes the world feel more lived in
I ended up installing path of the prophet 530+ modlist and it’s amazing 🍷
A great video thanks for me I like oblivion and Skyrim I couldn't get into Morrowind and thanks to content creators I saved money on not buying starfield, I will be downloading this game it looks good.
It's really quite embarrassing how much better than Skyrim this is. The writing, the voice acting (including the fact there's more than like 4 of them 😆) and the way it handles mature themes are just so far ahead it isn't even funny. I could go on but I don't want to write a novel here and the video covers it quite well. While Enderal probably wouldn't exist without Skyrim, it's just an incredibly stark contrast between what millions upon millions of dollars gets you, compared to a game that was made with the one thing money can't buy.
And only legends remember about Nehrim😢
Seems like that :)
I will definitely try Nehrim, but for now, I want to play The Chronicles of Myrtana (a mod for Gothic). I have been wanting to replay Gothic 1 and 2 for a while and now I have two reasons: this mod and the remake, which is coming out soon.
What about Arktwend?
Agree, fantastic game / mod, played it through twice already 🏆🏆😎😎
Is there graphics mods for Enderal ? I'll definitely be checking this out! Great video btw! Nicely planned out and clear and concise! 😊
The only thing in-drawal did was create a very dark dark setting and added more roleplay but unless you're in the extremely depressing and extra extra violent concept it might not be your thing while a little bit of darkness definitely is in the Skyrim story lines and there are some very sad subplots even it allows a character to emerge into the setting. And yes Skyrim is very light and roleplay You start off with essentially a race and not much else there's hardly any backstory at all to your character It's only hinted at it and again as I've said before anybody who would join the empire after them almost taking your head is really strange that'd be like somebody putting a gun to your head and then saying afterwards why don't we become friends now
Only thing I didn't like about it was the way the story draws to a close. Once you have finished all the side quests there forcefully is nothing else to do. Sure you might run around killing things for more XP but it doesn't really help that much. You are better off sitting down somewhere and reading every book or listening to every song in every tavern than grinding mobs over and over.
I will say though that playing the game without using fast travel is somewhat rewarding. Creatures have their normal spawn points, of course, but the detail of traveling between locations is so much greater, the distance feels longer, and you often find hidden things you missed the first 4 times through.
Been looking over mod packs
Amd looking for a affordable computer for modding
This Enderal looks and sounds awsome
This is what I'll probably get
I disagree. I have never deleted skyrim. Might switch and play something else for a while but I never delete
Enderal is great ❤
what a great video, thanks :)
It's honestly reductive (no offense! good video!) to call this a mod, what this studio made with Nehrim and then Enderal are full AA video games, using the Creation Engine as a foundation. These are full, completely unique video games. It sort of shows what an alternate history might have looked like if Bethesda were less insular, and they had proactively licensed their engine to devs to go nuts with it. Thank you SureAI for making it.
BTW, you can get a COMPLETELY MODERNIZED MODDED version of Enderal called Somnium through Wabbajack if you are familiar at all with modding. It's incredible - same game, overhauled gameplay. Muskets!
Skyrim is the one and only TES game I have never finished. I always seem to get near the same point in the game and then just... I dunno. Get bored, I guess. Then I quit playing, realize it's still installed months later, and uninstall it. Cause I also can't continue a game that I have walked away from for so long.
enderal is great but i’m really into lorerim 2.0
I looked up the bards song. Found the German version and now I'm crying. Fucks sake 😂
I in fact played it like 3 time last one was when the steam version realsed. The mod was good bit to dark and gloomy more on a horror side but the characters were quite nice i just wasnt the fact of the ending and not being able to expose a character when you knew he was the bad guy, anyone who played mass effect or had a brain cell could have predicted the ending yet we were still unable to do anything,
Thank you!
as long as it's on nirn somewhere it'll be worth a playthrough
Yeah...for some reason Skyrim is the SECOND BEST game I've ever played.
Skyrim the type of game you have to mod to make it enjoyable or turn it into a roleplaying game. Morrowind is still GOATED.
Don't forget daggerfall since they did the upgrade treatment it's been a lot easier to play on unity
I loved the Ultima series…
Lord British lives…!
I had Altima underworld 1 and 2 on CD-ROM for Windows 3.1 back in 1994😂 that was a hard game
Skyrim is the GOAT.
Game left me depressed
Me too, a little. But I love stories where the ending evokes both sadness and a sense of hope at the same time. This is best reflected in the ending where you escape to Starcity. On one hand, you realize that there is a real hell going on below, but on the other hand, there is hope that in the future you might be able to overcome this horror. It reminds me of the ending in Mass Effect when you refuse to use the Crucible.
Kind of similar to Skywind or skyblivion projects, a standalone game that is made as a mod just to use the full vanilla game engine.... I hope they make skarena or skyfall as well, I'd really hope to play those but I really cant get myself to play those graph/gameplay for long enough to enjoy those games
Facts 👏👏👏
Now i want to play this game again, Enderal looks like just the skyrim mod/game i would like to try. i have this game installed on my old 2007 pc, i used to play skyrim for houers on an GT 8800 512mb and athlon 64 x2 6400+ with 2gb ram:P but i guess Enderal wont run on that old potato. should try this mod on my new pc.
Could you make a pinned comment about your graphic mods?
would really love that
How many hours does Enderal give? I'm a skyrim newbie who's cheated his way to the end when I was a kid and I'd love to give this a try! (Without any cheats ofc)
~40 hours for the main quest, ~120 hours for a completionist playthrough.
Yeah you are right, I haven’t played it. Cuz I don’t have access on Xbox. Sad.
Cries in ps4
@@faustslament I STILL don’t get that decision.
Enderal is on PC.
@@randomthings1293 no you think? Someone didn’t read the comment.
I played through the main quest and the major stuff like mage guild and such once nad uninstalled and haven't had any urge to reinstall since, until skywind releases that is.
This video is about Enderal, not Skyrim. Go try it (Enderal), you won't regret it!
i'm not familiar with how modding & coding works. are there any mods for skyrim that improve combat & enemy a.i., etc, that would be able to be implemented in Enderal? ones that don't affect story, or nav meshes, or locations? any allowance for visual improvement mods?
Hi bro
Game of thrones ending
Part 3 update please
He said part 3 of GoT should be out around the 15th-20th this month
@@yordannikolov2179 thanks 👍
I wrote a short post explaining what's going on, there I also mentioned the 3 part GoT . But yordannikolov2179 already answered the questions about the release dates.
@@CineGameAV still waiting bro
Well also the mods that they cranked out probably didn't hurt either
this defies all knowdlege i have
Good review, except for a couple of points in the narrative and some other things. It's understandable that didn't want to give spoilers to people who haven't played the game, but you shouldn't have mentioned obscure terms like “Red Madness” without explanation. This problem is not difficult to solve, it was only necessary to voice the beginning of the story with a few explanations or simply omit these details. But these are small things and it's not for me to teach you, honestly, no offense).
I'm also not a fan of going into detail on the topic of role-playing systems, but here as I think should have said a little more about it. Because it is very strikingly different from the Bethesda series of games. Many people may even be scared off at first. Because, firstly, the whole system of leveling completely changes and throws what is in Skyrim in the trash and offers a more traditional way of gaining experience through quests and killing monsters and secondly, the very increase in characteristics is also unusual. At the expense of reading books of skills.Reading and, most importantly, buying them from merchants, which makes the economy in the game work again, where you constantly have to spend money on it, unlike Skyrim, where after 10 hours (it is clear that we are talking about the vanilla version) you are already a gold magnate. At first, this complicates the game, because you need to pump a lot, and your savings are limited. You can't just go into any dungeon and start collecting loot, because the game doesn't scale to fit the player, and a stronger enemy can hit you on the head. This forces us to approach the improvement of skills/characteristics in a more meaningful way.
And I would also mention the dungeons in Enderal. Nothing similar to the level of filling and elaboration is not in Skyrim. After all, remembering the outposts, fortresses, falmers caves and Blackreach I already get bored and bad.
And so, thanks for the review and for trying to popularize this game among the masses!!! When I heard Winter Sky, it was like I was hit on the head with a baton, but in a good way) I've never had such goosebumps, although I love music in games and didn't think that I could be surprised by anything.
(I apologize for semantic errors in the text because English is not my first language)
"I apologize for semantic errors in the text because English is not my first language".
You won't believe it, but it’s the same for me :)
Regarding the combat system (specifically the leveling system) and the books; there are experience limitations, which means you can't exploit skill leveling like in Skyrim anymore; there's info about classes in the game (and some provide clearly more bonuses) - I initially wanted to mention all of this, and these paragraphs remained in the draft version of the script, but this section somehow didn’t fit into the overall narrative. I thought about it from different angles, but I couldn't manage to articulate this part of the script well.
The next "gaming" video will likely be about Veilguard (Dragon Age) and there I will definitely talk specifically about the combat system because it currently looks... strange (considering previous parts and the RPG tag).
So, well, it turned out the way it turned out. Let everyone figure out the leveling in Enderal on their own. :)
There are two games they made one for Oblivion too as well as Skyrim they're both good in their own way the first was a little janky but entertaining the second one got streamlined
There's actually four. They made two games for Morrowind. The first isn't in English (last I checked), but Arktwend is.
@@TheRPGChick thanks
can anyoine plz help me managing getting around the world in enderal? the traveling is the only downside for me. u just have to walk everywhere no fast travel. thats so time consuming. i quit playing after 2 hours because of that.
I don't like a game where you are basically just a passenger on a ride for 30 minutes going from one ultra controlled scene with no choices to another ultra controlled scene with no options. If I want to be a passive non participant in a story I'll just watch a movie.
When we can expect new GOT episode?♥️
In the second half of October (made a post few days ago). It would be perfect if it comes out around the 20th, but there could be a delay.
the problem with comparing the story in Dragon Age and BG3 is which exact story are you talking about
Try starwind it is another complete game mod but for the OpenMW engine (A modern Morrowind Engine)
I liked the werewolf chick. Or demon... Forgot her deal
харош чел, перевел свой ролик)
Я сначала подумал кто то сплагиатил, а тут такое...)